Alyssa graduated from the University of Washington in Fall 2010 with a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and a minor in Art History. She works primarily in collage, but also works in a variety of printmaking techniques when she has the resources, and drawing and painting when she has the inspiration. http://sites.google.com/site/alyssavolpigno/ Please contact me at: alyssa.frances.volpigno@gmail.com Pricing available upon request. Portrait courtesy of Daniel Carrillo.Tumblr (3.0; @alyssavolpigno)http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/<p>Next time you are in Capitol Hill check out my work at Caffe Vita.</p> <h3>1005 East Pike Street, Seattle, Washington 98122</h3>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/13640721300http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/13640721300Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:38:05 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnk9jZKyu1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnk9jZKyu1qeg7tlo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Cheater, Liar</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11936091741http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11936091741Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:58:31 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnk7hdvns1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Untitled </p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11936040468http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11936040468Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:57:17 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnk5skfc71qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sea Legs</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935998479http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935998479Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:56:16 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnk4oNlMD1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Untitled 2</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935972683http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935972683Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:55:36 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjv4SAkU1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Untitled </p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935733509http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935733509Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:49:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjtbM6fj1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjtbM6fj1qeg7tlo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Fields </p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935690144http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935690144Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:48:47 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjmvlUz01qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjmvlUz01qeg7tlo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>They Were Traveling The Country But She Still Wanted to Be Glamorous </p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935526951http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935526951Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:44:55 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjjp7QEj1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjjp7QEj1qeg7tlo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>When Summer Ends</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935445432http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935445432Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:43:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnjcyJjiN1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Women</p> <p>2011</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935270793http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/11935270793Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:38:58 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctrc81Mt91qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A postcard for Visual Aids: Postcards from the Edge</p> <p>Hosted by CRG Gallery, New York.</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/2075474139http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/2075474139Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:45:44 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc9k9xBxCc1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Recognition</em></p> <p>altered yearbook, trophies, and ribbons</p> <p>2010</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1643391271http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1643391271Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:01:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc7ytlQEIH1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I showed this series of work at the IVA Fall Show at UW. November 20th - 28th at the Sandpoint Gallery.</p> <p>Above: <em>Big Game</em></p> <p>Collage 8” x 11”</p> <p>2010</p> <p>This artist statement accompanied the work.</p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser /> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">My intention is to combine imagery from modern fashion magazines with imagery from past eras, to be at one moment nostalgic, and at another moment, critical of the contemporary. John Berger states in his 1978 mini-series <em>Ways of Seeing</em>, a woman is “taught to survey herself constantly.” Historically, this notion has been relevant in a variety of ways, and currently applies to the way I relate to fashion magazines.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>I am interested in anonymity in portraiture and in actively eliminating the face. Much of the sources for collage I work with were discarded by their previous owner and lived another life before I found them. I am interested in how to appropriate material that should have sentimental value to someone, but instead has been cast aside. This idea that someone discarded old photos, yearbooks, and memories, evokes in me senses of disconnect to the unknown faces and names I encounter in the material.<span>  </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>I am inspired by the Dada artists of the early 20^th century. Although the Dada artists intended to create “anti-art” through their collages of newspaper and advertisement materials, they created a new visual language for art.<span>  </span>The raw, gritty, unfinished aesthetics of Dada work inspire me to leave my own work “unpolished” in the traditional academic artist sense. Hannah Hoch is especially inspiring to me because she not only worked in photomontage and collage, but much of her work reveals her thoughts regarding the role of women in her time and society.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>I am very interested in what other contemporary collage artists are making and what kinds of source material they are using to convey their voice. John Baldessari, who works in collage, masks the identity of figures in his work in a way that I find personally interesting and inspiring. I am also interested in Ruth VanBeek, a collage artist from the Netherlands who interprets the material of paper in a variety of ways to make a diverse body of work. She has a way of cropping literal images of people and animals to make them into more abstracted objects. Raul Lazaro also is skilled in cutting up and re-assembling the images he uses to make his inventive compositions, while incorporating anonymous figures.</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633776649http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633776649Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:20:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc7ydjzK7N1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Take a Picture it Will Last Longer</em></p> <p>Collage 8” x 11”</p> <p>2010</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633688618http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633688618Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:10:31 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc7y8e9ZSi1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Photo Shoot</em></p> <p>Collage 8” x 11”</p> <p>2010</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633660315http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633660315Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:07:26 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc7y190bv01qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Paparazzi</em></p> <p><em>Collage 8” x 11”</em></p> <p><em>2010<br/></em></p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633621206http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633621206Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:03:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc7xvei0Pv1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Espana</em></p> <p> Collage 8” x 11”</p> <p>2010’</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633589939http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1633589939Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:59:38 -0500<p>Don&#8217;t forget&#8230;</p> <p>More (and more organized) work of mine is on:</p> <p><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/alyssavolpigno/">http://sites.google.com/site/alyssavolpigno/</a></p> <p>My tumblr is most current though.</p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1597990299http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1597990299Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:54:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lblcrasqfX1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Ink Blots Series”</p> <p>2” x 3”</p> <p>2010</p> <p>My grandma gave me my great-grandpa’s souvenir postcards for me to collage with. After being ripped from the pages of a black photo album, the glue dots and paper residue on the backs of the images was more beautiful than the landscapes. </p>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1519997703http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1519997703Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:16:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lblcqiXhZQ1qeg7tlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1519993559http://alyssavolpigno.tumblr.com/post/1519993559Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:15:54 -0500